Lighting Science Group
announced that its new low cost
World Bulbâ„¢-an
omnidirectional 60-watt equivalent
A19 LED bulb-being manufactured in
partnership with Dixon Technologies
India Pvt. Ltd, a world-class
electronics products manufacturer in
India, has been selected as a 2012
International CES Best of
Innovations Design and Engineering
Award Honoree. The Consumer
Electronics Association's (CEA)
International CES Innovations
Awards recognize outstanding design
and engineering advancements
across 32 consumer electronics
product groupings-Lighting
Science Group's product was honored
in the Eco-Design &
Sustainable Technologies
category. The World
Bulb is planned
for launch in
early 2012 in India
and will be rolled
out to other
countries throughout
the remainder of
the year.
"It's an honor to be
recognized by CES as among
the elite in consumer electronics,
which further testifies to the superior
quality and performance of our LED
products," said Jim Haworth,
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
of Lighting Science Group. "The
World Bulb gives off a clean, bright
light equivalent to that of a
conventional 60-watt incandescent
bulb, but while using 85 per cent less
electricity. Plus, the bulb provides a 35
per cent lower total cost of ownership
as compared with CFLs. True to its
name, I expect that our award
winning low cost A19 LED World
Bulb will quickly become one of the
best selling lighting products around
the globe."
The CEA's 2012 International CES
Best of Innovations honor is awarded
to the products with the highest
judges' scores and will be featured in
the Innovations Design and
Engineering Showcase at the 2012
International CES. The Best of
Innovations are judged on overall
engineering qualities related to
technical specifications and
materials, aesthetics and design
qualities, the product's intended use
and function, unique features and
how the design and innovation of the
product compares to others in the
marketplace. The 2012 International
CES, the world's largest consumer
technology tradeshow, is scheduled
to run January 10-13, 2012 in Las
Vegas, Nevada.
At 9-watts of electricity use, the
World Bulb is designed to handle the
variable quality of power in India
and other emerging
economies around the
world. Even compared
with relatively
efficient CFLs, the
new bulb uses 35 per
cent less electricity
and, unlike fluorescent
lights, contains no toxic
mercury. At a suggested
retail price below $15, the
World Bulb's payback from
electricity savings versus
incandescent should take
approximately 8 months with a
calculated lifetime of 17 years based
on 8 hours a day of use.
"With 800,000,000 incandescent
light bulbs and 300,000,000 CFLs sold
in India each year, the market is ripe
for these highly efficient, long lasting
and mercury-free LED bulbs," said
Atul Lall, Deputy Managing Director
of Dixon Technologies. "The
economic and environmental
implications of the World Bulb are
significant: old-style light bulbs use
60 billion units of electricity each
year, 7 per cent of India's total annual
electricity consumption, and this
product could save over 70 per cent of
that-equivalent to 32 coal fired plants
with 500 mw capacity."